Seawatching for two hours 20 minutes from first light saw 23 Balearic Shearwater head south with 758 Gannet, including just two 1cy birds in contrast to further east off Seaton, eight Common Scoter, four Storm Petrel, four Dunlin, two Arctic Skua, two Great Northern Diver and a Sanderling.
In the estuary the highlight was the first multiple record of Caspian Gull with three different 1cy birds on Bull Hill and in the Bight. Also on Bull Hill c170 Common, 58 Sandwich and a juvenile Arctic Tern.
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| Caspian Gull - Lee Collins |
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| Caspian Gull - Lee Collins |
Wader counts included 202 Ringed and a Grey Plover, 24 Dunlin, 17 Greenshank, three Curlew Sandpiper, a Little Stint and the Spotted Redshank.
Elsewhere the first Siskin of the autumn was overhead and a Garden Warbler was in the car park.
Ringing News: The Hampshire colour-ringed Ringed Plover reappeared in the Bight with the increased numbers, having been seen on the Otter over the spring tides. Amongst the terns were a Polish and Dutch ringed Sandwich Terns and a Polish ringed Common Tern.
Other Wildlife: Fewer flying insects in the condition but still an interesting mix to be found, including the first Archer's Dart of the year, a scarce Devon species.
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| Archer's Dart - Alan Keatley |
Other records included the muscid fly Black-patched Limnophora L. tigrina in Greenland Lake, a lacebug Cixius nervosa by the station and a couple of Calathus mollis ground beetles in The Bight.
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| Cixius nervosa - Alan Keatley |
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